Being slightly anally retentive about this list, I’ve limited it to pictures of the actual typewriters that were used by 9 famous writers, not just examples of the same model. Included are James Bond creator Ian Flemming’s gold plated portable that would have been worthy of Goldfinger himself, and the typewriter used by Apple Mac user, Douglas Adams, to write the Hitchhikers Guide, before there were such things as Apple Macs.

There is some debate about which typewriter and which of Twains books were first written on a typewriter, however, Twain was the first major writer to use one. We've chosen this Hammond, not because it was Twains first or most notable machine, but because its a picture of one he actually used.